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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-12-23
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-12-23

The Petersburg ''Index-Appeal IN con-
GLIDING an article on the "cr0akers," whu
meet all propositions of progress with
jeering incredulity, says:
A little more than ten years before the late
war, late in the forties, Hon. A. H. H. Stuart,
of augusta, then a prominent statesman,
while advocating the interests of the old Vir-
ginia Central railroad proposed to be built
across the mountains to Stanton. in public
speech in that town, far sighted as he was,
told his countymen that there were men
present that would live to see railway built
across the continent. The prediction, it is
said, was received with jeers of ridicule Yet
Mr.. Stuart himself lived to see his prediction
fulfilled nearly twenty years ago
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-01
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL
Sheep Husbandry in Arkansas.

We often receive inquiries of the
practicability of sheep-raising here in
Arkansas. There is at least three
fifths of our State that is we'll adapted
10 sheep-raising. and about two fths
of it that could hardly be exceled if we
were to look the world over. That is
with reference to the natural conditions
and facilities. The time is not far dis
tant, either, when the improvement of
those conditions, as aresult of the ac-
ton of the people, will still better fit
our country for sheep husbandry. The
greatest drawback is the worthless cur
But his master is becoming civilized,
and that means the extinction of the
canine. The worthless dog is one of
the relics of barbarism that refined
civilization always ribs itself of, and
we believe our people are slowly work
ing up TO that stage of refinement.
Here, on the foothills of the Ozark
Mountains, among the alternating hills
and valleys, is the natural home of
the sheep, and not even Penn
sylvania or Ohio affords so fine
natural facilities for the success
full prosecution of The industry. True
is it that sheep-raising is not extensive
ly followed here. but what has been
done in limited way has gone to
make practical demonstration that
the splendid indications will be borne
out in practice. The health of sheep
here is first-class, there rarely ever
being any disease among them. This.
though, would naturally be inferred
and taken as self-evidcnt proposition
from consideration of the high and
dry ranges. the pure water and ut
mosphere, and the equablity of the
temperature. If sheep become dis
eased here nature is not to blaDe for
it. At the present time, and for some
years TO come, almost all of the forage
to keep them perfectly fat they will
find in most localities on the open
ranges. The little necessary supple
ment to this. a small amount of some
Of the very productive soil to be
found on any farm or
sheep ranch that may be Sc
lected will bountifully produce. If
not produced it can be bought cheap
~, and if dear the total bill would not
be large, for there is not much wanted.
But the most profitable sheep-raising
will be in connection with regular
agriculture. There arc here many very
productive tracts of farm lands in the
small valleys with mountain and hill
side ranges on either side. With a
large herd of sheep such farm could be
kept productive and even improved,
as the years roll on, and the owner be
able to bequeath to his children rich
legacy, besides realizing himself hand
somely during all of the time he was
making drafts for support on the
property. There can not possibly be
much of mistake made if one comes
to Arkansas to- raise Sheep or enters
the arena, being already here. dr.
kansas Farmer and Mechanic.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-01
Why Our Farmers Fail.

wish 10 write a few lines on the
failure of Southern farmers. think
that many OF them fail by mistaking
their vocation and by trying to take
hold Of things that nature did not in
tend them to manage. Others carry n
high head and say by their actions
that they know as much as any class
Of men on the earth. They will take
no ones advice, neither do they try
to learn any thing of agriculture or
horticulture. Every farmer who would
succeed should take trustworthy ag-
ricultural journal, and in that he win
see where farmers have gone over sim
liar roads, and that one road and
one alone will lead him to true
success. as all other paths are
reaching in different direction.
Some of them say that farming is
too poor a business for them. Now
what causes them to think SOP 1t is
because many poor farms are being
cleared, bad management displayed,
going in debt and giving mortgages
INDUCED in, buying things they have
no use for, not saving what they make,
and wasting what they finally harvest.
For example, much good hay is lost
each year on the ditch banks and in the
bottoms which overflow with water
during the summer season. Every
farmer should sow oats, and be sure to
prepare the land we'll before so doing.
When the oats are changing nicely, if
they are wanted for feed, they should
be harvested and all the straw saved
for the cattle during cold weather
Farmers boys, by all means, should
not be raised to spend
in fishing. hunting and other
amusements the time that ought to be
devoted to the cultivation of their
crops. The time is not far distant
when there will come out of such
homes honored men and useful women
TO occupy wider spheres Of influence.
1t will be pleasing to the parents Of
such children. when they grow OF d
their heads are blcssoming 70
grave, to resign their places ofstrust
and usefulness, both in private and
public life, to sons and daughters
reared to hab't is of industry, sobriety,
virtue and mental CULTURE G. L.,
in Southern CaltiUator.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-01
The New Cotton Cron

The New Orleans Cotton WORTH, Il
port of the crop for the month 81 n
TENDER says: "A prominent featur
last month has been tho almost Il
broken continuation of dry we,sI
over pretty much the entire belt M
ing the fruit TO maturity, and euabsI
a rapid gathering of the staple, usd /
the same time destroying. except i /
few sections. the prospect fol n
crop. As result of such condfsl
the quality of the product Is Nh
though in localities there is some ~
plant # recent heavy rains damas
the cotton and in others Of deurc]
tons by worms. Many 81 4
correspondents allude to the i
usual lightness Of the MI
and the difficulty of mai
the usual weight of bales n
two Carolinas and Alabama have 81
up well. while in Mississippi, also, ]
preponderance of the reports ind.a|
an improved yield over last year 4
other states show a great dspreciss|
from last month, the falling off bed
more marked in Tennessee and Arg,|
sas. Picking will be virtually q.
through the latter part Of the Il
before the close of October, and en-
in those sections extending bsyas
that time the picking season wilIa
much earlier than usual. The iolh,
ing is the condition by States: Vi
ginia, IS; North Carolina, S.: Geus
80; Florida, 81; Alabama, 81; ID
nessee, rs; Arkansas, "; MissisaE'
Sc; Louisiana, 81; Texas, rs An
age for the belt, 500. Average
last wear. 81 4.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-01

fortunate city consumers pAv !.
he feels that he has almost givsa
his eyes would bulge out with Y
lshment. Tenderloin. sirloip -, I'''
tefhouse steaks at 20 cents
roasts and rounds at Is ees.' 's
common roasts at II cents Arr q, y
prices in all city markets
prices are. under the circums..s
simply outrageous; and when 81
membered that the bulk Of The !.
slaughtered are bought at o. ~ y, N
and under. the imposition i IL
glaring. Consumers are pe,,, ~
part of the benefit of the sacr;ss
ing made by cattle-growcrx ~
only wonder that they suh.,s Nv
patience 10 the extortion prass
upon them by the retailers r !,
And, by the way, butchers j..
measure overreach;ng themsely,'
this display of greed. for Il i n.
Western beef operators in push;ss u n
sale of their cheaper meats ID ,hs j
ern public. Eastern beef is ret,i mi
altogether as high as it did when s..l
were costing two cents per pouDa :
on the hoof; and we do not rems. y
that butchers male any more NJ
plant then than they do now y N
Improbable nature of their bu,;,,'
National ,Stockmdn
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-01
Selling Beet.

The man whose live cattle go on the
wholesale market these days at g. so
per cwt. can feel as though he has
achieved something out of the usual
line-for in these gloomy cattle times
such sales are rare. These same cat
tie get into the hands of the city
butcher at a figure very little higher,
and it is a prime lot of stock indeed
which comes into last hands at MS
much as SIT Could the farmer
whose cattle are thus disposed of fol-
low them on into the retail meat mar
ket and see the prices which the un-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-01
HERE AND THERE.

Grinding of the sugar cane
progress in Louisiana.
One of the greatest pests to fan /
ers and gardeners in and around Tslf
hassee is the nut grass. We b.
heard of one or two instances Wh
gardening has been abandoned
plats of ground taken up by N
Mariana (Fa.) Enquirer.
The Dismal Swamp, Of Virgin
is no longer dismal. 1t is pretty "
cut up into onion and cranbsrj
patches. and the farmer whistles
merry tune as he sharpens his scTa3
and wades into the marsh hay.
One of the greatest troables /
feeding poor grain, is not in thesI
as compared with good grain, bul /
the fact that over-heated or mus
grain causes MANY of the disea7
which ordinarily afiict fowls.
-Evergreens can be propaga
from cuttings, if given extra carei
the first three months. They reqaI
over three months TO form roots, =
grow slowly. The cuttings are plac|
in boxes of sand and kept someviI
warm, but should have sunlight Y
moderate moisture.
Mr.. G. S. c., of South Carols
writes us: 20. F. c." Of Riehls|
County. S. c.. says the plan by WIZ
he has succeeded in destroying fea'|
to get green pine poles, peel the q
off and lay them around the hoA1
infected. The gum will hold sF3
flea that lights on them. --Ds
Farmer.
"A correspondent asks: Could !
tell me if corn and cob ground
gether fatten Us soon as without
cob? Answer: No; the cob coIlis1I
little nourishment, and is prlnelps
valuable for its bulk. ConcenLfp
foods are what we want principalll'
the fattening process. -Dizte far~
Colonel j. N. Lipscomb
worthy master of the State Grangss'
South Carolina, has entered upon,
duties as chief clerk in the raS
Office at Washington, D. c. Hi's
vent there was made eventful Y
nice little banquet at the Riggs h0s I
rendered him by the patrons IN '
city.
The election of Hon. L. }. b1'
mans, of Augusta, Ga. as presm.s.
of the American Pomological ooes,
to succeed the lamented and emu.
Marshall P. Wilder. Of Boston, ~,
is one Of tie highest compliments y
paid to the Southern horticuisu'..
and is an honor most wortnn,
slowed. - Southern Ca'siUasor
Sweet Potato Pie: The follow
recipe is sent us by Muff. We
sure it is good and mean to try NV
selves: Pare some sweet potatoes Z
stew until tender in water cnouSa1
cover them. Drain. rub throur.
colander. To every teacup o. r.
add two eggs and two taolesp \.
sugar with cream enough 10 hi'~
custard. Season with ailspacs
bake with one crust -Farnisft
Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-12-01

He who looks only at himself, living also
Tor his own interests and striving wholly
or even mainly for that which will inure to
his own advantage, must know but little of
the real joy of life. And if in caring for
himself he put himself in hostility to all
Others, seeking his gains at their expense
ne is but laying up for his future store OF
misery, * United Pres6pterisau
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13
sight, as he was covered with blood
and his clothes were in shreds, but an
examination failed to reveal any SER
ious injuries. g
Views of the Interstate Law.

The real essence of the long-and-
short haul clause of the Interstate
law has not been more clearly or con-
cisely stated than by the San Fran
cisco Bulletin, in the statement that
the operation of the law is a marshal
ing Of industrial interests against each
other according to locality. Thus in
California there is the novel spectacle
of leading industries contending for
the enforcement Of Section 4 in some
cases, and its suspension in others, on
the ground that it will retard or ad-
vance the money-making capacity of
such interests. As the Bulletin adds:
"When the necessary rules are form
ulated, it is not seen ON what pretense
Eastern competing industrial interests
can have any standing before the Com
mission in the adjustment of ques-
tions which properly belong to other
sections. These interests have a right
to be heard on their own transporta-
ton questions and none others. But
if every interest has the privilege of
pitching in for the purpose of gaining
an advantage over a like interest>lo-
Gated in some other part of the coun-
try, state Of industrial warfare will
be inaugurated, and the rooms of the
Commissioners will be turned into the
arena where it will have to be fought
to finish. If such an Industrial war
fare should be precipitated it will not
take very long to demonstrate that on
one side are ranged the South, the
great interior States and the Pacific
States, and on the other q small Terri
tory in the northeast. The long-and-
short-haul clause as now interpreted
must make against those sections
which are the farthest from market.
There will be q premium for those
staples which are produced nearest to
the place where they are sold. There
cannot be any doubt whatever on that
point"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13
How Women Fish.

toSo = LauclocO C0f001cle.l
Did you ever see woman fish?
don't mean female fish, but woman
in the act of fishing. If she's got to 90
out to buy paper of pins or yard
OF ribbon when it is wet she'll load
herself up with rubber and pair Of
arctics and an umbrella and neck
protector. She is too delicate for a
drop of rain to touch her. But she'll
go cut in boat wet day and let the
rain come down on her and the waves
dash over her, and stand soaking like
the hardest sailor man. There were
four ladies once went fishing. They
selected very rainy day, and they
had all their waterproof cloaks and
head and feet covering. They were
all by themselves when they took !
boat and went to fish. It was in
Maine. With true feminine earnest
ness they started off without anything
thing to put the fish in. They had an
elegant time until they caught . pick
erel. When they caught the pickerel
they did't know what to do with it. It
was alive and Topping. They had it in
the bottom of the boat. They wondered
why it didn't lie quiet. AT last . hap
py and benign thought struck one of
them.
"Poor thingl It's getting all wet ly-
ing in the rain"
And she whipped of her waterproof
and wrapped it up in it. Each of the
four caught pickerel, and each of the
four wrapped it up in her waterproof,
and the rain wet them through to the
skin, but they kept their fish dry all
the same.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13

Learn to run yourself and be con.

Learn to run yourself and be con-
tent.
Lose your due, get no thanks.
Live to learn.
Live and let live.
Let not zeal outrun discretion.
Let the devil have his due.
Little cares bring heavy griefs.
Little leaks sink great ships.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Little buats should keep near shore
Little folks should be seen, not
heard.
Listeners hear no good.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13

WASTE OF STEAM IN WHIsrIMG.-
A well-posted railway man says that
the obligatory footing Of locomc-
tive on the New York, New Haven 4
Hartford railroad, in an ordinary days
run, involves q waste of steam re-
quiring the consumption of $50
pounds of coal to renew. He esti-
mates the whistling expenses Of that
particular railway at $l5, 900 per year.
There is q similar waste in the blow.
ing of the whistles Of stationary and
steamboat engines. II is a matter
worth the serious study OF practical
railroad men, whether they cannot
devise a cheaper roise with which to
give notice of the approach OF trains
to stations and grade-crossings.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13
SupERsrIr1oNs CoNcERNrNa TOOTH

SUPERsTITIoNs CONCERNING TOOTH
AcHE.-In some parts of SUSSEX, Eng
land, there is superstition that if
you put on your right stocking, right
shoe and right trouser leg before the
left you will never have the tooth
ache. To drink out of skull taken
from q graveyard, to take tooth from
such a skull and wear it around the
neck, to apply the tooth to your own
living but aching tooth, to put q
double nut into your pocket, to pare
your finger nails and toe nails and
wrap the parings in paper-all are
charms against the toothache. In
other parts of England there is a
custom of calling the toothache the
glove pain," for which the sufferer is
not entitled to any commiseration.
Whether he or she fully consents to
this may, perhaps, be doubted.-Iron
Times 4f
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13

LAURA ID. Fair, who shot and
killed Crittenden the lawyer, in 1870,
has brought a 1000 suit in San
Francisco against DR.. Lyford, her
physician during the famous trial.
1t was upon his testimony that Mrs.
Fair was acquitted on the insanity
plea.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13

We commend the following, taken
from the Spokane Falls Rereiw to some
of our townspeople: 1T best to run
a town with vim or sell out and leave
it. Men who are all the time trying to
run down the business of town, or
forever trying to get out of it, will new
er try to build it up. One of two
things must be done, run the town for
all it's worth, get up steam and keep
it up, or quit and let nature have its
course. If you want business, patron
ize home industry. If you want busi-
ness to come to your town patronize
those who do come. If you want a
prosperous town, where people can
come who are disposed to make homes,
do away with jealousies, all spite work,
and all work together for common
and mutual benefit. Talk for your
town and community and all work for
the same and success is assured"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13

Gov. Bartlett, the bachelor COVER
nor of California, during recent
official visit to Red Bluff, was waited
upon by delegation of fifty young
ladies, each of whom gave him bou-
quet and kiss. The local chronicler
records that as the last one had lain
down her floral offering and kiss on
the Governors lips he locked up,
glorious expectancy pictured in every
lineament Of his countenance, and
said: "Come on; it shall never be
said that 49er quailed before the
bewitching eyes and rosy pouting
lips of fair woman-no, not of thou
sand daughters of the Golden
West !"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13

THE late Congress enacted no more
wise Legislation than that which pro-
hibited foreigners obtaining titles to
lands in Territories. The law came
none too soon, for aliens have already
obtained possession of vast tracts OF
public lands which they hold to the
determinent of citizens desiring
homes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13
8msiuess Garas.
CARLTON HOUSE,

A.D. WHITNEY, PROPRIETOR.
nHIS favorite hotel is now open for the
reception of the public. New house
and new furniture throughout. Ece'yths"9
Frst-Cldss.
Rooms can be secured by Tel
egraph.
COn~Un1ntA 81, bot. Third and Rearth.
Olympia. June II, 1885. tt
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13
POe's Unpublished Poem.

THE INSPIRATION OF "THE RAVEN" IN
"THE DEMON OF THE FIRE"
While poor Edgar Allen Poe is
sleeping quietly after life's fitful fever
in the heart of a city, it may be well
to recall the origin of his immortal
poem, The Raven" concerning which
so many conjectures have been haz-
arded. 1t now appears that when Poe
was 18 years of age and student at
the University of Virginia, he wrote a
poem which he called the Demon of
the Fire." AS poem it is not of any
great merit, but a few verses selected
here and there will at once show that
this was the inspiration which he after
ward embodied in The Raven" The
meter tells its own tale:
In the deepest death Of midnight,
While the sad and solemn swell
Still was floating family echoed,
From the forests chapel bell;
Family, faltering floating,
Ger the cable waves If air,
That were through the midnight rolling,
Chafed and billowy with the toiling;
In my chamber lay dreaming.
And my dreams were dreams foreehadowcd
OF . heart fored0Omed to care.
As the last long, lingering echo
Of the midnight's mystic chime,
Lisping through the sable bilow
OF the thither shore Of time,
Leaving on the starless silence
Not shadow or . trace,
In quivering Sigh departed
From my couch, In fear. started
Started 10 my feet in terror,
For my dreams phantasmal error
Painted In the ftful fire
A frightful hendish, flaming face.
The last verse reads thus:
But the fendish fire had smoldered
To white and formless heap,
And no knot OF oak was blazing
As it blazed upon my sleep;
But on the red hearths reddest center,
Where that demons face had shown
The shadowy lightning seemed to linger
And to peint with spectral finger
To Bible-massive, golden
On table, carved and olden,
And bowed and said. All power
IL In God and God alOne.'
The original copy Of the verses was
given by Poe to one of his southern
companions at the university. 1t has
never-been published until now.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-13

A DAILY chicken train has been
started on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
They have passenger Cochin the rear
and q locomotive to pullet.